Using a foreign language changes our choices

S Hayakawa, A Costa, A Foucart, B Keysar - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2016 - cell.com
A growing literature demonstrates that using a foreign language affects choice. This is
surprising because if people understand their options, choice should be language …

Differences between health workers and general population in risk perception, behaviors, and psychological distress related to COVID-19 spread in Italy

L Simione, C Gnagnarella - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this study, we investigated the perception of risk and the worries about COVID-19 infection
in both healthcare workers and the general population in Italy. We studied the difference in …

Worry, risk perception, and controllability predict intentions toward COVID-19 preventive behaviors

A Sobkow, T Zaleskiewicz, D Petrova… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 has already had serious worldwide health, socio-
economic, political, and educational consequences. In the present study, we investigated …

Individual differences in intertemporal choice

K Keidel, Q Rramani, B Weber, C Murawski… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Intertemporal choice involves deciding between smaller, sooner and larger, later rewards.
People tend to prefer smaller rewards that are available earlier to larger rewards available …

Cognitions affecting innovation among generation Z entrepreneurs: the external enablement of digital infrastructure

M Saeedikiya, A Salamzadeh… - International Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The current research aimed to investigate the external enablement role of Digital
Infrastructures (DI) in the interplay of entrepreneurial cognitions and innovation …

Socially optimal mistakes? Debiasing COVID-19 mortality risk perceptions and prosocial behavior

M Abel, T Byker, J Carpenter - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2021 - Elsevier
The perception of risk affects how people behave during crises. We conduct a series of
experiments to explore how people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications …

Using a foreign language reduces mental imagery

S Hayakawa, B Keysar - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Mental imagery plays a significant role in guiding how we feel, think, and even behave.
These mental simulations are often guided by language, making it important to understand …

The affective bases of risk perception: Negative feelings and stress mediate the relationship between mental imagery and risk perception

A Sobkow, J Traczyk, T Zaleskiewicz - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Recent research has documented that affect plays a crucial role in risk perception. When no
information about numerical risk estimates is available (eg, probability of loss or magnitude …

Emotions and financial decision making

T Zaleskiewicz, J Traczyk - Psychological perspectives on financial …, 2020 - Springer
In this chapter, we discuss how theorizing about the role of emotions in financial decision
making has changed over the years and review results that indicate the impact of feelings on …

Entrepreneurial risk taking is related to mental imagery: A fresh look at the old issue of entrepreneurship and risk

T Zaleskiewicz, A Bernady, J Traczyk - Applied Psychology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper contributes to the debate concerning determinants of willingness to take
entrepreneurial risks and proposes a new approach to this issue. Our theoretical model …